A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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